Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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1014. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to update the Framework Policy for Local and Community Development in Ireland published in 2015. [54289/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Framework Policy for Local and Community Developmentwas published by Government in January 2016. It sets out a high-level vision for the State’s support for local development and community development and underpins all relevant policies, programmes and interventions for local development and community development.

My Department established a Cross-Sectoral Group on Local and Community Developmentin May 2017 to develop an implementation plan for the Framework Policy.The Cross-Sectoral Group is chaired by my Department and comprises members drawn from the relevant stakeholder sectors, including the community development, local development and community & voluntary sectors, as well as local and central government.

The implementation plan will serve as a de factoupdate of the Framework Policy. It will draw on the feedback received from the original consultation on the Framework Policyin 2015, outputs from the National Forum on Local Development and Community Developmentheld in November 2016, outputs from a cross-sectoral workshop held by my Department in November 2017, and the recent deliberations of theCross-Sectoral Group.

I expect a draft plan to be submitted for my consideration in Q1 2019 and I hope to bring it to Government for approval shortly thereafter.